Goldy, who has espoused white-nationalist views and appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast, is running in Toronto’s mayoral race.

On Saturday, she attended the premier’s annual Ford Fest barbecue and posed for a picture with him. At the event, she tweeted comments like, “Faith nation is Ford nation,” and posted a photo of them together, saying she “can’t wait” to work with the premier.

Thank God @fordnation is Premier of this great again province! His respect for our officers & the taxpayer is unparalleled.

The Ford family knows better than most the deep level of rot at Toronto City Hall.

In what turned into a raucous exchange in question period on Monday, NDP MPP Jill Andrew said the picture was being used as a “de facto endorsement,” and asked Ford whether he would “unequivocally denounce Faith Goldy.”

“Boy, Mr. Speaker, they’ve sunk to a new low,” Ford replied.

Instead of answering Andrew’s question directly, he added, “I can’t help when thousands of people are coming at you and they’re taking pictures right, left and centre.”

He went on to say that if NDP members had been at the Saturday event, they would have seen it’s the “most diverse group anywhere in Canada.”

“There’s no group in the entire country that represents Toronto and Ontario more than Ford Nation does,” he added.

Goldy has posted videos on her YouTube page titled, “Multiculturalism = ethnocide.” Her Canada Day video this year gave her take on being Canadian, which includes speaking “English and French, not Punjabi” and enjoying a “European-Canadian identity, not multiculturalism.”

She wraps it up by suggesting that the placement of civil rights activist Viola Desmond on the $10 bill turned Canada’s currency into “canvases for virtue-signalling towards footnotes of our history.”

Asked about Ford posing for a picture with Goldy, his cabinet colleague Steve Clark said, “I believe we should just denounce hate. That’s the way I feel.”

He dodged questions about Ford’s response to the picture.

Meanwhile, Liberal MPP Michael Coteau said that, while “you can get caught in a picture with anyone,” the premier missed an opportunity to respond to it after the fact.

“Clearly, she’s using it as an endorsement. He should denounce that relationship,” Coteau said.